{"id":10354,"date":"2024-04-22T14:33:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T04:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/?post_type=services&#038;p=10354"},"modified":"2024-06-16T14:36:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T04:36:07","slug":"shunt-study","status":"publish","type":"services","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/healthcare-services\/riu\/shunt-study","title":{"rendered":"Shunt Study"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pulmonary shunt is a condition where the blood vessels bypass your lungs causing a lower-than-normal level of oxygen in the blood. This test will determine if you have a pulmonary shunt and its severity. The test will take approximately 60 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":10320,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10354","services","type-services","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"page_subtitle":"","page_type":"general","include_in_alphabetical_listing":false,"page_sections_general":[],"general_content":[{"other_content":[{"heading":"","content":"<h3>What is a Shunt Study?<\/h3>\n<p>Pulmonary shunt is a condition where the blood vessels bypass your lungs causing a lower-than-normal level of oxygen in the blood. This test will determine if you have a pulmonary shunt and its severity. The test will take approximately 60 minutes.<\/p>\n<h3>Preparing for your test<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Avoid wearing perfume or cologne as some of our patients\u2019 symptoms are triggered by strong smells.<\/li>\n<li>Withhold from smoking on the day of your test.<\/li>\n<li>Avoid vigorous exercise for 1 hour prior to your test.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The test<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>You will be asked to sit in a chair and a device that clips on to your finger, ear or forehead will be used to measure your oxygen levels.<\/li>\n<li>A soft nose-clip will be put on your nose, and you will be asked to breathe through a mouthpiece that is connected to a bag that contains 100% oxygen for approximately 25 minutes. Your oxygen levels will be continuously monitored throughout this time.<\/li>\n<li>After approximately 20 minutes, while you are still breathing 100% oxygen, an arterial blood sample will be taken from your wrist.<\/li>\n<li>Once the results from the blood sample are confirmed as arterial, you will be free to go, and the scientists will use the results to calculate if you have a pulmonary shunt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10507 size-fusion-400 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/04\/shunt-400x412.jpg\" alt=\"Patient doing a shunt study test\" width=\"400\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/04\/shunt-146x150.jpg 146w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/04\/shunt-200x206.jpg 200w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/04\/shunt-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/04\/shunt-400x412.jpg 400w, https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/04\/shunt.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n"}]}],"include_advertisement":false,"include_related_news_article":false,"add_contact_details":true,"remove_sidebar":false,"contact_extra_general_content":"","contact_extra_general_content_2":"","display":["location","outside_hours","related"],"building":{"ID":415,"post_author":"15","post_date":"2017-08-02 05:33:39","post_date_gmt":"2017-08-02 05:33:39","post_content":"","post_title":"Main Hospital building","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"main-building","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-07-07 16:23:15","post_modified_gmt":"2025-07-07 06:23:15","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/?post_type=location&#038;p=415","menu_order":0,"post_type":"location","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},"location_details":[{"name":"Respiratory Investigation Unit","location":"Level 1, Main Building","phone":"(07) 3139 4744","fax":"(07) 3139 4730","email":"RIUTPCH@health.qld.gov.au","opening_hours":"Monday-Friday 8.00am-4.00pm","visiting_hours":"","additional_details":false}],"view_on_google_maps":"","contact_us_outside_hours":[{"variation":"13 HEALTH","free_text":"","variable":""}],"related_services":[{"links":[{"link_type":"internal","page":{"ID":857,"post_author":"15","post_date":"2017-08-04 04:12:58","post_date_gmt":"2017-08-04 04:12:58","post_content":"","post_title":"Thoracic Medicine","post_excerpt":"Thoracic Medicine investigates and treats diseases of the lungs.","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"thoracic-medicine","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-11-19 08:49:33","post_modified_gmt":"2024-11-18 22:49:33","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/?post_type=services&#038;p=857","menu_order":0,"post_type":"services","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},"link_text":"","anchor":"","link":"","target":true}]}],"related_information":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/healthcare-services\/10354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/healthcare-services"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/services"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/healthcare-services\/10354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10833,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/healthcare-services\/10354\/revisions\/10833"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/healthcare-services\/10320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/tpch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}